79606 - need "The Newsgroups header is not valid" alert (or allow posting to non-ASCII newsgroups)

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

need "The Newsgroups header is not valid" alert (or allow posting to non-ASCII 
newsgroups)

in 4.x, if I subscribed to a non ascii newsgroup on news://news.webking.com.cn, 
and tried to post, I'd get an alert "The Newsgroups header is not valid"

(and, it's not.  since it's not in ASCII)

I've seen some docs / RFC suggestions on the web about how to handle this.  
I'll go find them.

either we should follow the docs, or just throw up the alert and not allow 
posting.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

This *might* help, Seth.
http://www.newsreaders.com/misc/twpierce/news/newsreader-manifesto.html

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

that's a good document, but I was thinking of a document that discusses how to
encode the non ASCII characters.

http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/2047/rfc2047.html

covers it, but I'll check if rfc 2822 has obsoleted it.

Comment 3

[Jungshik Shin]

See bug 126453 comment #27

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"